Secondary Schools Nationals

Purpose of Secondary School Nationals

School Nationals

A tournament for top secondary school teams from the around the country, organised by 麻豆视频. Schools can only participate if they have attended qualifiers and finished in a qualifying spot. At the end of nationals there will be a boys鈥� and girls鈥� team that are crowned as national champions.

A National Tournament | Palmerston North: 22 - 25 September 2025

A National Tournament: 22- 25 September
Host Association:听Basketball Manawatu
痴别苍耻别:听Central Energy Trust Arena 鈥� 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Basketball NZ Event Lead: Jay Macdonald | 027 279 8804 | jay@nz.basketball
Registration Due: Wednesday the 3rd of September

FIBA Live Stats

Live Stats will be done for the Top 4 Semi Finals, and Grand Finals for A and AA, in both boys and girls.

The links for these will be posted here before the games are due to be played.

2ND OCT – 5:45PM ‘A’ Boys Semi-Finals	Nga Taiatea Wharekura vs Central Southland College
2ND OCT – 7:30PM ‘A’ Boys Semi-Finals	Aquinas College vs Te Aroha College
3RD OCT – 9:00AM ‘A’ Girls Semi-Final	Te Kura o Te Koutu vs Stratford
3RD OCT – 10:45AM ‘A’ Girls Semi-Final	Aquinas vs Te Kura Kokiri
3RD OCT – 5:45PM ‘A’ Girls Grand Final	Te Kura o Te Koutu vs Aquinas
3RD OCT – 7:45PM ‘A’ Boys Grand Final	Aquinas vs Ng膩 Tai膩tea Wharekura

4TH OCT – 12:30PM ‘AA’ Girls Semi-Final	Westlake vs Tauranga
4TH OCT – 2:15PM ‘AA’ Boys Semi-Final	Wellington vs Christ’s
4TH OCT – 4:00PM ‘AA’ Girls Semi-Final	St Andrew’s vs St Peter’s
4TH OCT – 5:45PM ‘AA’ Boys Semi-Final	Rosmini vs Napier

5TH OCT – 2:15PM ‘AA’ Girls Grand Final	Westlake vs St Andrew’s
5TH OCT – 4:00PM ‘AA’ Boys Grand Final	Christ’s vs Napier

AA National Tournament | Palmerston North: 22 - 27 September 2025

AA National Tournament: 22 – 27 September
Host Association:听Basketball Manawatu
痴别苍耻别:听Central Energy Trust Arena 鈥� 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North
Basketball NZ Event Lead: Jay Macdonald | 027 279 8804 | jay@nz.basketball
Registration Due: Wednesday 3rd of September

CoachMate App

CoachMate is 麻豆视频鈥檚 FREE app for coaches, managers, parents and players. The app has a full activity library with over 30 easy-to-follow practice plans and games all with ideas and progressions to make them easier, harder, or just different for your team each week.
With the schedule and team management feature you can also set your team鈥檚 practice and game schedules and add all your players and parents to one team chat. And don鈥檛 forget the extensive Learn Library with simple tips and tricks including:

Coaching fundamentals
How to interact with kids safely
Getting players to listen
Benefits of games-based learning
Inclusion and diversity
Responding to varied behaviour in children

Download Coachmate here –

Technical Meeting

The tech meeting will be held in person at the Central Energy Trust Arena. More info will be posted here closer to the event.

Draw & Competition Information

Will be uploaded here approximately Monday 15 September

Team Rosters

Team Rosters will be uploaded here once finalised

Ticketing Information

Secondary School Nationals is a ticketed event.

There are two ticketing options:

Day Pass for $6
Weekly Pass for $25

All spectators will need to purchase a ticket to gain entry into the venue.

Children 5 and under are free

Tickets can be pre-purchased before the tournament

Content Creators

If you want to create content at the 2024 Secondary Schools Nationals, please fill out .

More information will be sent out to those who put their name down.

Online Fixtures & Results

Basketball NZ uses GameDay for all of our online draws and results.

All draws and results for school tournaments can be found .

Alternatively, you can download the GameDay app, and follow these steps:

Click on the Tshirt at the bottom of the page
Search 鈥楤BNZ鈥� under 鈥楲eagues鈥�
Click on BBNZ Schools
You can then find the tournament that you are wanting to follow

Glory League - Public Leagues

All games for the tournament can be viewed here, once the game video has finished uploading to Glory League. All the links can be found below:

Broadcast & Live Stream Schedule

In 2024 we will have 3 livestream courts for the first 4 days of Secondary School Nationals. The games that will be live streamed will be highlighted on the draw.

The live stream links will be available听.

The Grand Finals for the AA, for Girls and Boys will be broadcast on Whakaata Maori.

Health & Safety Documents

All H&S Documents will be uploaded here 4 weeks prior to the beginning of the tournament

Mouthguards

It is compulsory for all players participating in all age grade (under 19鈥檚 and younger) competitions, leagues and tournaments run by BBNZ and its members to wear a protective mouthguard when they are on court and the game is in play
罢丑别听No Mouthguard, No Play Policy听is to be firmly enforced
Players are not permitted to share mouthguards
Mouthguards of any colour may be worn (except in FIBA events where they must be non-coloured/transparent)

笔濒别补蝉别听click here听to view the BBNZ Mouthguard Policy.

Competition Ball